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Publisher:
Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, c1999
ISBN:
9780395926833
0395926831
0395926831
ISSN:
00676233
Branch Call Number:
FIC/BES 4565fi 2
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Alternative Title:
American short stories
The hermit's story / Rick Bass
The sun, the moon, the stars / Junot Díaz
Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Divakaruni
Kansas / Stephen Dobyns
The tumblers / Nathan Englander
The piano tuner / Tim Gautreaux
The uncharted heart / Melissa Hardy
The 5:22 / George Harrar
Islands / A. Hemon
The best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston
In the kindergarten / Ha Jin
Marry the one who gets there first / Heidi Julavits
Live life king-sized / Hester Kaplan
Africans / Sheila Kohler
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
Real estate / Lorrie Moore
Save the reaper / Alice Munro
The bunchgrass edge of the world / Annie Proulx
The robbers of Karnataka / James Spencer
The good shopkeeper / Samrat Upadhyay
The rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough
The hermit's story / Rick Bass
The sun, the moon, the stars / Junot Díaz
Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Divakaruni
Kansas / Stephen Dobyns
The tumblers / Nathan Englander
The piano tuner / Tim Gautreaux
The uncharted heart / Melissa Hardy
The 5:22 / George Harrar
Islands / A. Hemon
The best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston
In the kindergarten / Ha Jin
Marry the one who gets there first / Heidi Julavits
Live life king-sized / Hester Kaplan
Africans / Sheila Kohler
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
Real estate / Lorrie Moore
Save the reaper / Alice Munro
The bunchgrass edge of the world / Annie Proulx
The robbers of Karnataka / James Spencer
The good shopkeeper / Samrat Upadhyay
The rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough
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